On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:22:26PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote: > Nicolas, > > Thanks. One more problem. If I try to use a hostname in the scp > command I get "Unknown host or service". To make it work I have to use > the ip address. I fixed /etc/sysconfig/network on both machines with > names like jumbo.chpi.org . What else has to be done? The quick and dirty solution for small networks[1] is to add the name and the IP address of the machines in the /etc/hosts file - see the manpage for hosts. When Linux 'looks' for your machine names, it will check /etc/hosts before asking DNS. Hope this helps, Pete [1] If you have a public IP address, you can get your provider to add a DNS record for your machine, and thus circumventing /etc/hosts altogether. This is what you want if you intend to connect to your machine from a remote host and don't want to remember the IP address all the time. -- Pete St. Onge pete@xxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list